2 Kings 2:23

Elisha Begins His Ministry

²² So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke. ²³ He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!" ²⁴ He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

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2 Chronicles 36:16

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Job 30:1

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

Job 19:18

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

Genesis 21:9

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

1 Kings 12:28-32

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"

2 Kings 2:11

It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Job 30:8-31

They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Psalm 35:15

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

Proverbs 20:11

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Isaiah 1:4

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Isaiah 3:5

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

Isaiah 57:3-4

"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Hosea 4:15

"Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don't let Judah offend; and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

Hosea 10:15

So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.

Amos 3:14

"For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Amos 4:4

"Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

Amos 5:5

but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

Amos 7:13

but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"

Matthew 27:29-31

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

Matthew 27:40-43

and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

Galatians 4:29

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Hebrews 11:36

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.